Deployment Tool

The Stuntbyte Salesforce Deployment Tool is a text-based tool that helps with migration of Salesforce components between instances of Salesforce.

It's especially helpful if you use separate development, test and productions instances of Salesforce -- like you know you should.

Essentially the tool is a simpler and/or more flexible way to achieve the same thing that Salesforce provide via the "Force.com migration tool" (aka ant), Eclipse's "Deploy to Server" feature, or the web-based deployment tool, except it's better because:

You can easily merge deployment scripts made by multiple developers

You can easily "tweak" deployments prior to deployment

You don't have to XML yourself to death with the ant tool

You don't have to point and click yourself to death with the Eclipse tool, or the web-based tool